The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWINAnimals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWINI never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINIn the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
CHARLES DARWINMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWINIt strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWINThe limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWINThe most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINHe who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN